Most quotable movie ever…

At my house, we like to quote movies. A lot. And I don’t mean we just randomly strike a pose and recite a line for no reason. Usually the line is offered in the midst of a real conversation; such that the line becomes part of it. Like this: someone in the house is about to leave for work or school or some other destination fraught with purpose. Instead of saying, “Have a nice day,” as they head out the door, one of us might say to that person, “Have fun stormin’ the castle!” – which, if you don’t know, is a GREAT line from the best quotable movie ever, The Princess Bride. Today, I share with you the best quotes from this movie which we Meissners love to inject into ordinary conversation. Now, you share yours from your favorite movie…

Why don’t you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

So tweasure your wuv.

Look, I don’t mean to be rude but this is not as easy as it looks, so I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t distract me.

Let me ‘splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles

Is this a kissing book?

As you wish…

(Is that mug not the best ever? Here is where you can get it…)

Words that hit the head on the nail

I am beginning one of those weeks where I have too much to do and not enough me so I am taking the easy way out this morning and offering you a link to someone else’s words; partly because I am hyperventilating as I approach a deadline and partly because it’s just funny stuff I think you will like.

It’s a list of words that actually describe themselves. Such as a noun is a person, place or thing, right? Well guess what the word “noun” is? It’s a thing, peeps. Get it?

Perhaps I am too much of a word junkie to see that this list may not make anyone else smile other than word junkies. I’d like to know what you non-addicts think.

If there are any out there who read my blog…

One last bit of advice, straight from the list: ” OBFUSCATORY: Do you want to be straightforward and easy to understand? Then don’t use this obfuscatory word.”

Here’s the link. Read and enjoy. If indeed you want to… And share with me any words you would had to the list, like maybe “orange?”

http://theweek.com/article/index/250372/17-words-that-describe-themselves

Happy Monday…

After Ellis…

The galleys for A FALL OF MARIGOLDS arrived yesterday, which means I have one last look at the pages before the book is sent to the printer. But while I am putting the last touches on this manuscript before it is published in February – just four months away! – I am already much involved with the next project.

After spending the last year in 1911 and one the bit of land that is Ellis Island, I am now moving forward a few years to World War II, the London Blitz, and the evacuation of a million of its children to the countryside. I’ve just returned from a research trip to the UK with my mom, where I had the opportunity to interview eight people who were children and teenagers during the war and who remember well the influx of young Londoners into their villages, or taking the train out of the city to live with people whom they’d never met, or running for cover from the Luftwaffe bombers and Doodlebugs and rockets. Their stories amazed me and I can’t wait to incorporate these details into the book, which is tentatively titled, THE BRIDE’S BOX. For now, here is a mini photo gallery of this incredible trip. These scenes will take place early in the book… Thoughts so far?

The pastoral Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, the place where my 15-year-old heroine and her seven-year-old will be evacuated to out of London...

The pastoral Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, the place where my 15-year-old heroine and her seven-year-old sister will be evacuated to out of London…

The town I will evacuate her and her little sister to, a real and lovely place called Stow-on-the-Wold...

The town I will evacuate her and her sister to, a real and lovely place called Stow-on-the-Wold…

The bench just outside the Methodist church where she will make the plans that will change everything…

The cottage where she and her sister will be sent which I will call Thistle House…

The path she will take in the middle of the night to steal away back to London…

The station where she will wait in the dark until dawn and the first train back to the city…

Archive: October 28, 2013

Most quotable movie ever…

Words that hit the head on the nail

After Ellis…